ex-Minister van Onderwijs geeft les Engels
Grappig willen zijn in een taal die je niet goed kent is gevaarlijk. Je begrijpt de echte betekenis van de woorden niet, en nog minder de gevoelswaarde, en je vervalt soms in contradicties.
EU Confidential: We’re going to focus on the home front: Brussels. Don’t press stop, the topic is much more interesting than you might think. First we’re going to talk to a local minister, Pascal Smet. He’s got some very interesting ways to describe it as well.
Onze Pascal: I compare Brussels very often* with a whore, with a prostitute, because at the same time it’s beautiful, it’s very horny,** but at the same time it can be ugly, and it’s attractive and at the same time disattractive*** and it’s nice in its ugliness, and ugly in its niceness.**** And that’s a kind of dual city and Brussels is a city that doesn’t give itself easy. But once you felt***** in love with…
EU Confidential: You contradict yourself right there.
Onze Pascal: No, you stay in love.
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